Decadence Mandchoue by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

Author:Edmund Trelawny Backhouse [Backhouse, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-988-19-4452-8
Publisher: Earnshaw Books
Published: 2011-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

1 As best I could.

2 Intervention.

3 Comedic female roles.

4 Intermediary.

5 Wife-swapping party.

6 In turn.

7 “Sultry as the night when Saint-Avit killed Morhange”. Though the author correctly attributes the source, the 1919 novel L’Atlantide, the name of the author (Benoit) is misspelled.

8 There appears to be a slight confusion here. In the chapter dealing with baths (“The Hammam and the Intrusion”) the author speaks of Heng Yü son of Ch’i Hsiu The names of both men are written differently in this instance.

9 The Yellow Springs, in traditional Chinese mythology, refers to an underground gathering place for the souls of the dead.

10 At his deathbed

11 The story has been acted, applaud!

12 The most influential of the Greek philosophers, Aristotle (384-22 BC), is sometimes referred to as “the Stagyrite”, after his hometown, Stagira.

13 Backhouse: The vulgar word for penis or tool, Ch’iao Tzu is always written in the [Ch’in Ping Mei] “cunning” thing. Also, I think, in the other famous novels. Of course [freckle] is the same sound.

14 A stroke.

15 Blast.

16 Verse.

17 “Developing a close friendship”. Correctly written “En train d'èvoluer vers une ètroite amitiè”.

18 The gods have judged otherwise (Aeneid II.148).

19 To return love for love.

20 Resort.

21 Who knows?

22 A character tabooed after the death of an emperor whose name contained it.

23 Homosexual through and through.

24 Witticism.

25 Break wind.

26 Antinous (111-30 AD) was the beautiful lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Hadrian deified Antinous following the latter’s death, and his image was widely reproduced throughout the Empire.

27 Nietzche’s “overman”, someone beyond the limitations of humanity.

28 To the most illustrious English poet, Milton.

29 Dante, Inferno III.63.

30 Heavy.

31 A lush.

32 Eyewitnesses.

33 “A pile of ashes almost white, or rather whitish, that one could not even distinguish to whom they belonged”. Correctly written “un tas de cendres quasi blanches, ou plutôt blanchâtres, dont on ne pouvait même pas distinguer à qui elles appartenaient”.

34 “So passes the glory of the world”, a phrase used during papal coronations until 1963.

35 A sudden apoplexy.

36 To answer prayers; grant wishes.

37 “See”, a direction to the reader.

38 After a generous meal.

39 As a consequence.

40 The darkness that exists between the earth and Hades in Greek mythology.

41 Actually Alexander Pope, Essay on Man I.I.200.

42 An untouched virgin.

43 It was raining cats and dogs.

44 Linen; light cloth (literally “summer cloth”).

45 In any case inopportune.

46 Backhouse: N.B. In the sinister illumination of the fire which was then still burning fiercely and the lurid rays of an angry sunset, like a lost soul that shall always suffer, the light, so far as our eyes affected by the glare, and in my case blinded by my tears, could see, there seemed to be a mass of “white” ashes on the remains of the K’ang intermingled apparently with charred remnants of a darker hue which I took to be of the rafters. Next morning, the eunuchs brought over a sack containing these pitiable restes [remains]; we took them out and found divers fragments of calcined bones and a satchel full of grey white ashes. The Old

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